Linux And Friends

Here is a collection of over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. In this list, you will find copywriting blogs, dictionaries, references, teaching classes, articles, tools as well as related articles from other blogs. The links are divided into 7 seperate sections namely: Grammar & [...]

Do you know the difference between a Mocha and a Cappuccino ? What if someone asks you if you prefer an Espresso or a Cafe Breve ? If you don’t know the difference, then study the following picture and get your facts right. And next time, don’t fumble if someone asks you your favourite coffee [...]

Recently, one of my relatives did a health checkup and was diagnosed to suffer from high blood pressure. She had a blood pressure of 160/100 which falls under mild hypertension. The normal range is 120/80 for a healthy human being. We all suffer from high blood pressure at one point or the other in our [...]

The following are a number of tools  which are quite useful in providing backup and synchronization services for free.  Many of these tools work across platforms – be it Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

This is a list of Windows software that I find really useful. All the software baring one or two are available for Free (GPL). Text Editor Notepad++ – This is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. This editor sports a tabbed interface, has configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line [...]

An 8th grader, with help from his family has build a solar quadri-cycle. A pedal assisted vehicle with four wheels. It is sleek to look at, carries 3 people with enough room for a dog and luggage. Fourteen-year-old David Dixon of Novato Charter School, California, built the Solar Human Hybrid (SOHH) for a middle school [...]

This is a collection of very popular blogs found on the net, dedicated to bicycles or bikes. These blogs are chosen for their consistency in writing exclusively about bicycles; and also the interesting information they carry. In alphabetical order ….

Are you thinking of travelling to a foreign country? If yes, then you should have with you  the correct type of power plug used in the country you visit. Else you won’t be able to plug in your electric gadgets such as your laptops, cellphones and music players; because different countries use different types of [...]

Transliteration is the act of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet. For example, if I wanted to type Linux in Hindi, using transliteration, I would type ‘Linex’ in English, press [Space] and it will be converted to it’s Hindi equivalent as  लिनेक्स .